| To: | Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [RFC] enhanced version of net_random() |
| From: | Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sat, 21 Aug 2004 00:55:01 +0100 |
| Cc: | Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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On Gwe, 2004-08-20 at 22:24, Lee Revell wrote: > One problem is that AIUI, we incur this overhead even if a hardware RNG > is present. This does not seem right. Hardware RNGs are increasingly > common, Linux supports hardware RNGs from AMD, Intel, and VIA. Hardware RNG's are actually fairly slow and thus are better as sources to perturb a PRNG. |
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